lave. After 2 years of living in the British Isles, some of his friends bought his legal freedom for 150 ponds and he came back to the United States. During the Civil War Douglass fought for black people to be able to fight for the Union. Before he died in 1895, he stayed an active part of the United States. Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Stowe was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, an anti-slavery novel that is sometimes thought of as one of the causes of the Civil War. Stowe's first publication was The Mayflower, which were sketches of scenes and characters of the descendants of the Pilgrims. When she and her husband moved to Maine in 1850, she wrote The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin and Dred: A Tale of Great Dismal Swamp. All of her novels were written because of her hatred for slavery. She still wrote novels, essays, and poetry after the Civil War about New England scenes. Harriet Stowe is one of America's most recognized writers. Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth was an American preacher and abolitionist. She was born into slavery and given the name Isabella Baumfree. Sojourner ran away after New York's emancipation act of 1827. Her master didn't pay attention to it. When she got to New York City she joined a religious cult, but left in 1843 because she didn't know what the cult did. She struggled for black emancipation and women's suffrage during the Civil War. She continued to work after the war for equal rights for women of all colors. Abraham Lincoln Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky in a log cabin. In 1830 the Lincolns moved from Indiana to Illinois. Lincoln was elected to the Illinois lower house in 1834 and served four terms until 1841. Lincoln became a lawyer and moved to Springfield the following year. There he met Mary Todd and they married in 1842 and had four sons. Lincoln served one term in the House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849. In 1860 he...
